Anyone using Tripwire?

Lonni J Friedman netllama
Mon Jul 23 18:29:25 PDT 2007


I gave up on tripwire a few year ago, when I got sick of the vast
number of false-positives.  Unless you're super paranoid about someone
breaking into your system, there are far superior security mechanisms
available which don't sacrifice your time & sanity.

On 7/23/07, James McDonald <james at jamesmcdonald.id.au> wrote:
> I have been looking at tripwire
>
> I am finding yes it does keep an eye on filesystem changes. But what I'm
> finding is that the volume of changes on a Development Distribution such
> as Fedora 7 are so great how do you sieve through all the information?
>
> Each new version of an application can have literaly hundreds of files.
>
> So the report is garguantuan.
>
> Anyone using this day to day ?


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